} I still find it amazing that Perl is non-portable BY DESIGN!?! The concept } of end-of-line is so universal, I fail to understand why this problem isn't } "taken care of" behind the scenes... >It is. Use native text, and everything works. Use non-native text, >and nothing works. sorry to be so naive, but what is native text, and what is non native text? do you mean a script ftp'ed from a unix machine in text and in binary (respectively)? ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch